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220 Fourth: On each hand in turn, with the teeth slip the lower (the original) thumb loop over the loop passing around both thumb and index, then entirely off the thumb, and let it drop to the palmar side. Separate the hands (Fig. 493).

Fifth: Bring the hands close together, with the index finger and thumb of the one hand pointing toward the index finger and thumb of the other hand; then

hang the right index loop on the left index, and the right thumb loop on the left thumb (Fig. 494). Take up with the right index, from the left side, the loop you have just put on the left thumb, and take up with the right thumb, from the right side, the loop which was originally on the left thumb (Fig. 495); then with the right

thumb and index lift both loops from the left index, and put the left index away from you into the loop just hung on the left index, and put the left thumb toward you into the loop originally on the left thumb (Fig. 496). Now, placing the hands with the thumbs up and the fingers pointing away from you, draw them slowly apart,